The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 10, 1949, Page 9

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1949 ~ FRADY REPORTS HERE FOR NAVAL SERVICE Is Now Assistant Operations Officer Of Key West Naval Base Lieutenant R. A. Frady, USN, reported at Key West Naval Base for duty here, following a tour of duty at the Memphis General Depot as the Navy representative of the American Graves Registra- tion Service of the U. S. Army Lieutenant Frady will be assis- tant to the Operations Officer at Key West Naval Base.Command- er Eli Vinock, USN, is operations officer. Commander Vinock leaving for Guam in April. Lieutenant Frady reported to Captain C. C. Adell, USN, com- mander of the Key West Naval Base and was signed assistant officer. During the recent war, Lieu- tenant Frady was engineering officer aboard the USS Fogg and the USS Odum, and later. became exegutive officer of the Odum. Later he finished the war on the executive staff of the adminis- tration of Green Cold Florida, and assistant engineer- ing officer of Sub Group One of 1s as Florida group of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. Litutenant Frady joined the Navy in 1935 as an enlisted man. He was a chief machinist’s mate at the outbreak of the war, and subsequently received his com immediately as- } operations | Springs, | | ‘TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS (Know America) } Charles Sawyer, Secretary | Commerce, born in Cincisnati, 62 ' years ago. Cornelius. F. Kelley, . boa chairman of Anaconda Co born at Mineral Hill, years ago. Marguerite M. Wells, p dent of the National League of Women | Voters, Washington, born in Mil ; waukee, 77 years ago. of NEV 10% | Prof. Charles P. Smyth of | Princeton Jniversity, famed } bomb researcher } chemist, atom iborn at Clinton, N. Y., ago. | “Vice Admimal Francis E. M Whiting, yetired, president of the Licensed Beverage Industries born 58 years ago. Lessing J. Rosenwald, mer- chant, civic worker, born in Chi- | cago, 58 years ago. 54 years Harry Bingham, president of the Louisville, Ky., Times, born in Louisville, 43 years ago | Dr. Arthur A. Hauck, president of the Unive y of Maine, born Springfield, Minn., 56 years ago. Dorman H. Smith, ¢ vonist, born Steubenville, Ohio, years ago. Mary Queen of watch in a case skull. shaped like a mission. His home town is in Lex ington, N. C., He and his wife} i will live here. Scots had a] PARIS—(#)—France is taking to television. By the end of the year fur different transmitters will b@ in operation in the counting 1 It Pisn't reached the point | * where television receivers are | beings installed to attract crowds) idewalk cafes or as an added | “Can Can” show. | registered in | believe that there | unregistered sets. in France are regis- h set owned has to are pay &tax of about two. dollars a year, though it has been custo- | mary i: radio to let taxes pay } for ms and keep ‘the ai { commercials, Radio- Helevision is considering e to sponsors. dash revolutionary move on the irggean, Airways is being held- | I IML ts. A spokesman tly that if the airways peng¢d to advertising, the | * Communist Party of! Franee-will be one of the first customers. The matter if “dis- | cr ton,” he said, has been} delaying a decision. | ; At present there is only one! , tele on transmitter. That is on} the fel Tower. By the end of | this year there will be a second | j wansmitter operating in Paris, | | in Lyon and one in Lille. | | > television studios on the! Left Bank werg started while the ; ; Germans were heres The Nazi | chieftains in France were taken | with the idea and consequently ; dad everything they could to help i their captives along. ; NEW YORK DESIGNERS | Nee pine lianas (P) Wirephoto RUSSIAN AIRMEN ANATOL BARSOV (left) and Peter Pirogev (right) are fascinated by sow! < ern jive as Negro boys who call themselves "The Ramblers” hold forth on Richmond, Va., street corner Saturday. The fliers, who escaped from their homeland, made a weekend tour of Virginia » to see American democracy in action. Two pounds of turnips will | make five or six servings; to pre- | pare them cut off roots and tops, } pare thinly and then cut into cubes. Cook them quickly in a! small amount of boiling salted } water. ' ' ' ( | ‘The Hardy Crape Myrtle “ saaead ive aie By A. H. ANDREWS One of the hardiest and most showy flowering shrubs | throughout the entire South is the Crape Myrtle, being ¢ ¢on- Spicuous feature of southern parks, and gardens as far north as Baltimore. Known botanically as Lagerstroemia after Mag- | nus Lagerstroem, a Swedish botanist, the genus is said to: con- sist of about twenty species ,all natives of tropical Asia. Be- cause of a fancied resemblance, it is commonly known as In- SET THE MODE Eee a dian Lilac. ‘ Crape Myrtle may be had in| season. Being hardy, however, it RENTNER THE LOOK FOR °?19., spring fashion “rocket” dress in blac dels “kitchen dinner” CHAPMAN SPRING PREVIEWS . larity are: restaurant dress with showings: McC «Highlights from current Maurice Reniner’s k taffeta; Claire McCar- dress in plaid gingham: MANGONE .. Slated for top popu- Cecil Chapman’s strapicss silk print sleeved stole; Mango. s dressmaker suit of dark gray wool with self-fittine ARDEG carmine red, rose pink, purple and white flowering species, rose pink being the most vigorous growing and floriferous, of which pAne late Dr. Henry Nehrling said: “My favorite specimen, the rose- colored form, has panicles of flowers about a yard long if the many auxiliary clusters are also ; taken into consideration. They form an almost unbroken sheet lof color as there are many up- right flaming branches. This form is undoubtedly the most showy }one. There are, however, quite a {few distant varieties, among them | scarlet, purple blush, and even pure white sorts. None of them jare quite as flortferous and ! showy as the rose-colored varie | My specimen of the latter is sur- rounded by many vigorous seed- “us which are constantly com- up from, self-sown seeds.” : Bailey says of this gorgeous flowering shrub: _“Crape Myrtle is of the easiest cultivation. The old bushes bloom profusely, but ; the plant will produce flowers ; the fir, ' from seed. It may also be propagated from cuttings of ripe wood. The bloom may be increased by cutting back so that has advantages of surviving oc- | casionaly freezing spells that..cut | tropical shrubbery to the ground. A tree form of Crape Myrtle not so commonly encountéred is L. Flos Reginae,—Queen’s Crape ' Myrtle,—of which Dr. NehY¥ling wrote:. “We grow ia Florida the ‘most exquisite Queen’s ‘Crape Myrtle, a very tender evergreen species. The present species, ; though much grown in India} ‘is ‘a native of China, particularly the southern part of the Celestiat Empire, where it evidently “‘has : been grown in the gardens since time immemorial. Its leaves’ are rather smail, about two inches ‘long, elliptic or oblong.” .| As previously stated, the Queen’s Crape Myrtle is not coms monly met with in South, Florid&} the only tree of this species calF ed to mind at this time- being’ ih the yard of Mrs. Widerquist * gn Anderson Avenue in Fort Myers. It is worthy of more. general planting. : The owl of urope has“ for years been an e lem of wisdom and in early yee Ww accepted as the special ward of Pallas MONTE-SANO Yonte-Sano’s white silk and worsted dressmaker | eps with all-over tucked skirt. Skirts for day- | imme wear are slightly shorter. were shown the public recently. 1 # POTTER These fashions | ROSENSTEIN trim: Clare Potter's long shorts and weskit of dark green sharkskin; Nettie Rosenstein’s navy taffela evening gown with back bow. These fash- ions will predominate this coming spring | gre fresh growth is secured. It has no Athena of the Greeks. special soil requirements.” : é While the Crape Myrtle is a ‘ | at 50 9”) common sight throughout the} y ; ’ . ‘southern © states it is not so pro-j ee M y Cr. zy fusely planted in Florida, due ee an, Tou re Taz) no doubt, to the fact that it is! “peppiog up“ with Ostres, Contains toale tor weakt rundown feeling due solely t which many all “old.” Fry Ostrex Tonic Tablets for pep, younger feeling. phi iv deciduous and summer blooming, local preference being for ever-i very°aay. 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